Bethany accidentally gives her little brother the wrong medicine before bath time. When he starts making confessions in the tub, she decides to do something about it.
A young wife becomes one of the first employees at a new company in town. After a weekend meeting with the corporate execs, she stops for a cocktail with her boss. One drink becomes two, then three and four and soon they are in a room in the hotel. It becomes a contest to see who is sexually stronger.
Alice Moody wants to take over taking care of her daddy from the moment her mom runs off. Her dad makes her wait until she is fourteen to do the most important "taking care of a husband" job. Alice thinks she has everything she ever wanted when her father marries her. Sometimes things don't work out the way you expect.
Not-so-innocent Fourteen-year-old Joel is seduced by a stranger on the night train between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, where Joel is being taken to live with his father for having messed around with his step-father and the step-father's congressman boss.
Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for fourteen-year-old boys. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, fourteen-year-old Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.